Summer Work - 2007
Posted at 9:59 AM, Friday, September 14, 2007
This summer I worked at the ACIT (African Centre for IT) and the Admissions office. At the ACIT I was part of a team of 9 (then sophomore, now junior) students - Hamman (technical/project manager), Patrica (designer and assistant project manager), Oma (analyst), Nayyara (coder), Nousheen (designer), Fiza (coder and analyst), Judith (analyst), and Osaetin (coder). I was assigned the job of a designer along with Nousheen and Patricia. however, I was also part of the analysis and programming, as were others like Oma, Patricia, Nousheen, Faiza and Judith. It was like most of us did a little of everything just to get the experience and believe me, it did helped a lot. I mean I've learnt a lot after working there. We were working on 2 projects - one was about developing a healthcare information system and the other was about creating a portal for a group of organizations to enable data sharing. We used JSP and SQL in both projects. Both were web applications and we used the hibernate concept in jsp to link the web interface to the database. Anyways, I'll write more about it in another entry and might possibly put some snapshots of the protoptype (if given permission to do so). We had fun too, wasn't like we were working around the clock! There were some very funny moments, some boring moments, some lonely moments, and moments of frustration. On the whole, I enjoyed the experience, Judith says she'll definitly miss it all, I think I will too. I can remember one very funny moment when Oma, myslef and Judith were discussing on the way Chineese people talk and the way Japaneese talk. Then Oma imitated how the Japaneese speak and I couldn't control my laughter, it was just too funny and all of us were laughing soo hard that Oma even fell off her chair! That only made things worse, cos I had to run out of the room to catch my breath, haha, I just couldn't stop laughing! It's was all really very funny.....Anyways, here are some of the pics we took from back then........
In the first picture there is Nino and Patrica (left-tp-right), with Oma and Judith in the Backgroud (left-tp-right). The second picture shows Nino, me, Judith, Faiza (left-tp-right) and Nousheen (bottom). The third picture is of course Osas and Hamman (Raju). The rest are pretty obvious.
On the other hand, at admissions we were busy preparing for and accepting new students for the Fall 2007 semester. In addition to that we also spent some time doing Banner Training. The university has puchased the Banner software and admissions was the first department to recieve its training. A lovely consultant from New Zealand came to help us learn the basics, and frankly speaking I learnt more than just the basics. She's very good at it cos she knows how to engage her audience, she even gave us chocolates to make us come early to the trainning sessions, isn't that cool or what? The registration training will take place sometime this semester, I'm not sure when but am looking forward to it.
In essence, things went well except that there was mostly no transportation available to any workplace (ACIT or admissions). So we mostly decided to walk all the way to the destination. It was a long summer, but I took lots of pics and stuff and enjoyed a lot with my family. However, there were lonely moments and sad times too, God rescued me from yet another horrible moment in my life this summer. I'm grateful to Him for everything and I know He'll continue to save me and guide me, thank you Jesus!
I'll put in my next entry in a few days, and entries with pics I took this summer will follow. Thanks for reading, God bless.